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Back-to-Basics: Properly Configured Firewalls

PCI perspectives

In this 8-part back-to-basics series , we highlight payment security basics for protecting against payment data theft. Today’s blog focuses on properly configuring firewalls. Too often, data breaches happen as a result of vulnerabilities that are entirely preventable.

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Microsoft Exchange Autodiscover flaw reveals users’ passwords

Malwarebytes

From Microsoft’s site we learn that “the Autodiscover service minimizes user configuration and deployment steps by providing clients access to Exchange features. However, Autodiscover can also provide information to configure clients that use other protocols. What is Autodiscover? How can it be abused? domains.

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Assess Your Database Security With This 4-Step Checklist

SiteLock

It drives conversions and is the backbone of how you deliver meaningful content that keeps your visitors coming back — but it’s also valuable to cybercriminals. SSL certificates are a basic measure all websites should take to protect customer data. This is where your customers’ information is stored. Sanitize input fields.

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What We Can Learn from the Capital One Hack

Krebs on Security

Anyone seeking a more technical explanation of the basic concepts referenced here should explore some of the many links included in this story. Anyone seeking a more technical explanation of the basic concepts referenced here should explore some of the many links included in this story.

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Wireless Security: WEP, WPA, WPA2 and WPA3 Explained

eSecurity Planet

Wireless security is the protection of wireless networks, devices and data from unwanted access and breaches. It involves a variety of strategies and practices designed to preserve the confidentiality, integrity and availability of wireless networks and their resources. What is Wireless Security? How Does Wireless Security Work?

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Cloud Security: The Shared Responsibility Model

eSecurity Planet

Drivers, Firmware, Software : Cloud providers bear responsibility to secure, test, and update the software and code that supports the firmware and the basic software infrastructure of the cloud. For each model, the cloud provider hands off different segments of the security responsibilities to the customer.

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Overview of IoT threats in 2023

SecureList

The first-ever large-scale malware attacks on IoT devices were recorded back in 2008, and their number has only been growing ever since. The consequences of these attacks can be substantial, such as in the case of a vulnerability in the TR-064 protocol implementation used by ISPs to automate configuration of devices on the LAN.

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